City man jailed on weapons charge

Published 12:04 am Sunday, January 2, 2011

A Vicksburg man was in the Warren County Jail Saturday night on a weapons charge.

John Robert Evans, 27, 920 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., was arrested at 2:21 a.m. Saturday at Poplar and Third North streets after leading police on a brief car chase, Vicksburg police Deputy Chief Mitchell Dent said.

Evans, who was convicted in 2003 with possession of cocaine, was found to have a gun and charged with possession of weapon by a convicted felon, Dent said.

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It was unclear in the report, Dent said, if Evans was the driver, but other people were in the car.

Evans was being held without bond awaiting an initial appearance Tuesday.